Morning.
For breakfast, we were served simple bread baked at the campsite in front of the labyrinth, a hearty soup cooked in a large pot, and mare’s milk from a wild horse.
It wasn’t a special feast for us.
We gathered here to protect the labyrinth and its surroundings, but since this campsite lacked the backing of families or food production industries, it was difficult for the residents to manage their own meals. With young people from various clans arriving irregularly, securing food became even more challenging.
That’s why, under Dier’s name, ingredients were collected from each clan, and meals like this were served frequently, much like military rations.
“I’d just like to eat too, though. In my immortal body, it wouldn’t be poisonous if I did, but I can’t stand the idea of wasting it.”
Breakcore spoke with a hint of regret.
“Well…”
I thought it would be more fun to join in on the meal, but it’s true that it feels a bit awkward to waste food that had been transported from the Red Clan village over time, even though I don’t need to consume it myself.
“…Actually, how about I provide my meat?”
“Stop. Let’s discuss that at another time if possible.”
Even though the body of a holy beast is said to regenerate endlessly thanks to its “ki” energy, it’s still a bit much to have the person sitting across from me smiling and saying, “Here, eat my meat—plenty of it.”
After the meal, Lyla took off again.
As Mayor Dier and the blacksmith Gant, along with Break Core, waved farewell, Lyla set a course for the clan estate.
“It’s been quite a while since we’ve seen our master in full swing like that.”
“Compared to Andy-san when it’s just the two of us… ah, such mutual longing is quite captivating♪”
“Yeah, I guess so?”
The little Lyla and Aurora seemed oddly satisfied.
Their sensibilities must be different from ordinary people, but I can’t quite understand their reasoning for preferring larger groups. Well, not that it bothers me as a man—I’d rather keep my woman to myself—but the women seem bored with the long intervals.
“I prefer one-on-one if possible… but I can’t say I don’t understand what the Blue Princess is saying.”
“Really?”
“After all, both in appearance and status, it’s a proud match. It’s also satisfying to think that the man I’ve chosen is captivated by such a figure.”
”…I just can’t get it.”
From my perspective, no matter how extravagant the other figures are, I want to keep the woman I love all to myself… That’s how I feel.
…Wow.
Thinking about it, my hobbies might be pretty terrible.
“What are you thinking…? Well, I can guess.”
”…I’m so selfish, aren’t I?”
“Truly.”
Irina chuckled softly.
“Don’t worry. I already know all about it. Apple’s insistence on calling me a ‘female slave’ is because she wants to stay with you even though you’ve given up your only wife’s position.”
”…She did say something like that, didn’t she?”
“It’s fine. It’s sad, but you won’t be able to keep us by your side until we grow old. Marriages and romances between beings of the same kind, with the same lifespan, are meaningful precisely because they can align with each other. You can pledge eternal love. But for you, there’s no point in fitting into that mold. From the start, equality doesn’t exist. Just be yourself, in your own way.”
“Even if I’m allowed by Irina… it feels like I’m being a coward…”
“Yes, cowardly. What you’ve given me can only be described as cowardly. You shattered the ideal of marriage and love, and now you want to give me more… W-what am I even saying?”
”…You know.”
If I think she’s boldly saying something embarrassing, suddenly she looks embarrassed and lowers her face.
It’s hard to tell if she’s brave or just naive—she’s such a confusing girl.
But.
“If you keep saying such cute things, I might get you pregnant.”
“…That would be… a problem…♪”
Irina looked like she was happy.
“Well. That’s fine, that’s fine.”
Little Lyra laughed.
“You will not be granted eternity. You have too much love. I’ve always known that from the start. Yet, I still fell in love with you. …Be yourself. Love me as you always do, driven by your impulses.”
“…Don’t talk about people like they’re always in heat like some wild monkeys.”
I knew it wasn’t convincing, even to myself.
“…Um, please keep those kinds of conversations private…”
Nea, with her hat brim pulled low, spoke modestly.
We arrived at the red clan’s village in the afternoon.
There, Irena turned to face the other girls with a solemn expression.
“I’ll definitely return to Polka by tomorrow. So, could you let me go on ahead from here alone?”
“Sure.”
Diane-san, with a wry smile, stopped Nea from speaking.
“I understand.”
“But—”
“It’s fine. …I’ve heard where we’re heading next, and I know you’re safe.”
Diane-san took a deep breath.
“Aurora must want to return to her hometown with the man she captured, right? She’d want to be the protagonist for that moment.”
“Yes. …That’s right.”
She took a breath, and Aurora chuckled softly.
Lyla nodded too. Neia alone wore a slightly puzzled expression but was urged to turn around by the others.
“See you later.”
“I’m sorry about this.”
Dianna-san and Irena exchanged light waves.
Then, Irena took my hand and led me to an oddly shaped transfer magic field.
“The next stop is white.”
“Yeah.”
The white clan’s estate was a typical mountain village with nothing particularly noteworthy.
There was a lake and a river nearby, a few scattered mansions, and the forest stretched endlessly, wrapping around the gentle mountain slopes.
“This is…”
“The final destination of this journey. The last place I wanted to show Lord Smison… no, not that it’s worth seeing.”
“No, not really… But thinking about it, it’s quite interesting that Irina grew up here.”
“Nu…”
An elf child peered timidly from behind the trees in the forest.
The calm atmosphere of the village made the movements of the people walking around slow and deliberate, and I could intuitively understand how Irina had grown up here more than a hundred years ago.
It was peaceful, gentle, nothing out of the ordinary.
In such a place, where I could describe it with words like that…
She must have been loved and raised here directly.
“Ugh… I feel like I’m being stared at strangely.”
“Don’t worry about it.”
Shortly after, a group of adult elves ran over to Irina, who looked uncomfortable. Behind them were children, so they must have told the adults about her.
“Irina-sama!”
“Irina-sama, welcome back!”
“This human…”
“Lord Smysen. You must know of him, the hero of that incident involving the holy beast.”
“Yes… Welcome, Lord Smysen. I am Darr, the attendant to Lady Airena.”
“And I am Ritz.”
“I am Margaret.”
The elves one after another cut their blessing signs, making me feel flustered.
All three of them, as expected, appeared young and beautiful, but they also exuded the air of overprotective attendants, which I found endearing.
“More importantly, let’s entertain Lord Smysen! We’ve guided many clan lords through various estates before, so make sure to prepare dishes that won’t disappoint—no one says the white is bland!”
“Yes!”
Following Airena’s words, the three elves dashed off.
Then, Airena took my hand and led me to the lake.
“Look forward to dinner… Until then, let’s take a stroll by the lake.”
“I don’t mind.”
I had taken Dianne-san’s words at face value, assuming she meant I’d return as the protagonist and do something grand, but it seemed that wasn’t the case.
Irina held my hand and we walked slowly along the shore of a lake near the clan estate.
It was an outer lake, about two hours’ walk in circumference.
The area around it had been somewhat paved as a path, but it didn’t seem like many people passed through here often.
“Even the Whites are suffering from population decline, aren’t they?”
“Well, yes. It’s fair to say that some clans have seen particularly steep declines.”
Irina spoke with a hint of loneliness in her voice.
“There’s an ancient ruin by this lake. The submerged palace is said to be the very heart of an ancient barrier.”
With a soft thud, thud sound, Irina walked across the surface of the water. My boots splashed easily, but she walked without leaving any ripples.
Then, after only a few steps, she turned back.
“The Whites bear the heavy responsibility of guarding this barrier… The collapse of the barrier would not just mean the loss of elven protection, but it could also unleash twisted space and risk the destruction of the entire continent. Yet, Father has entrusted such a position to a mere girl like me. There are no others. If the clan leader were to fall ill, someone with little experience and nothing but magic to their name would have to take over. That’s why I support Cristy’s research. Declining elven populations aren’t just a natural phenomenon—they’re not something we can accept as the decline of a race. We must find a way to stop it.”
”…Aerina.”
“I’m sorry, it’s just complaining… but I wanted you to hear it once. Even I… carry something on my shoulders.”
Aerina smiled faintly, as if a little troubled.
“As with other women, I wanted to believe that even so, you would hold me in your arms.”
So.
…So, she wanted to go home alone with just the two of us.
Not because she wanted me to rely on someone else, but to confirm that, as myself, I would still reach out to her.
“I don’t like being tested like this, though.”
“My apologies.”
“But, well, I’ll take the bait. Even so, I won’t let you go. You’ll always be mine.”
”…I see.”
“No, you’re my female slave. I’ll make you bear my child. Like with other women, I’ll keep doing naughty things to you until you die. Aerina, it doesn’t matter if you’re an elf or a clan leader. I’ll take you because you’re cute.”
“Ahh, I see… Yes, as I thought… You really do say it like that… ♪”
Irina takes my hand.
She leads me onto the surface of the lake. This time, my boots didn’t sink.
If I focus my eyes into the blue water, I can indeed see something resembling a palace.
Directly above us, in the center of the lake, we were holding each other on the water’s surface as if it were a bed.
“Irina…”
”…Hehe, the reason I’ve been so skilled in this water-walking magic since long ago is because I’ve always looked down at this place from above.”
“And now, to think that after all these years, it would lead me here to be impregnated in a place full of memories…”
“It’s almost fateful, isn’t it?”
“I’d say it’s quite ironic, though.”
“I’m happy… You don’t even let this wedge get in the way and treat me like a woman… ♪”
I pull off Irina’s clothes as she lies beneath me. She takes off my clothes instead.
On the most important facility of the clan estate, in the middle of the lake.
The young clan leader and I, both naked, entwined and devoured each other’s lips.
“You’re sure you’re hiding it with illusions, right?”
“Should I not trust you? It’s I who would fall into ruin from such a game.”
“Well, of course.”
The water beneath our feet, touched by magic, felt like a soft cotton bed. It was cool but didn’t make my body freeze.
On that vast, spacious bed, I defiled the young ruler of this place, in his childlike form.
How liberating, how sinful the situation was.
“Fufu… now, Lord Smayson…”
After a passionate kiss, Irina spread her legs and invited me in.
The swaying, ethereal background contrasted with her white, slender body, dazzlingly beautiful.
“Push your hips out more. Spread your legs even wider. …Yes, that’s it.”
“Fufu, how improper of you… I am…♪”
“You’ll be forced to do this for the rest of your life. I won’t let you escape.”
“By the time you become an old man, what kind of shameless mistress will I have become? ♪”
For her, the sense of sin and liberation must be even greater than what I feel. Shaking with shame, her entire body flushed red, her small, hairless genitals were visibly wet with arousal.
“This perverted girl…!”
I couldn’t hold back and pounced on her.
I rubbed between her thighs, kissed her chest, and stole her lips in a frenzy, moving like a dog in heat as I searched her vagina and rubbed my cock against it. My pre-cum smeared onto her body.
“Hau, ah… Lord Smysen, my pussy is here… here, put it in… make me lose myself inside you…♪”
“Ahh, I’ll ruin you, I’ll make you forget about your cock every time you return to this village… make you remember how I fucked you with all my might!!”
“Ahh, yes, desecrate me more… stain me with yourself…♪”
“Uoooh…!!”
“Nngh, hah…!!”
I thrust into Irina with force.
Her slender body seemed weak enough to break even under my feeble strength.
Her adorable face was stained with stimulation and shame.
And all her limbs were tangled around me, clinging desperately as if they would never let go.
She clung to me tightly, exerting all her strength to accept my depraved desires.
Such a beautiful silver-haired girl, so endearing, made me thrust recklessly.
Recklessly slamming the tip of my cock against her cervix.
“Ahh, Lord Smyth, I-I’m… I’m… ngh, ahhh!”
“You are mine, you are my female slave, you will have sex with me for life, you will bear my children!!”
“Yes… yes, I am… yours… ngh, I am your woman… ngh, you are my master…♪”
“OOOOOH!!”
Irina’s eyes narrowed in ecstasy as she felt the pleasure, while I could only see straight ahead, overwhelmed by excitement.
The man and woman desperately thrusting in the middle of the lake were probably incredibly foolish.
Thrusting so desperately that their veins would burst, and then…
“Hah!!”
Ejaculation.
I pulled away from Irina’s hips and scattered my semen splashing into the lake water.
“Ahh, ahh… ah… ah… S-Smyth, lord…?”
Irina, gasping for breath, looked at me with a slightly puzzled expression.
”…You pervert…♪”
“Hehe… huff…”
In the end, we smiled at each other and collapsed together.
The scattered semen swayed gently in the background of the ruins, standing out oddly.
The next day, I returned to Polka with Irina.
“As such, it seems Lord Smysen intends to turn me into a female slave.”
Irina casually claimed (with the tone of someone completely at the mercy of my desires) to Dianna and the others.
“A-Ahira…?”
It’s agreed, right?
…A wicked grin returned with a sly “Hehe.”
“Hey, Andy, calm down and think about it. This isn’t something you can just rush into.”
“Ah-n-dy-kun? So when are you planning to start seriously training the teacher?”
“Don’t be fooled by Anzeros or Hilda-san! This guy is surprisingly…”
“Giggle, giggle, excuses are pitiful, Lord Smysen. I’ve got your word on it, haven’t I? I heard you say you’d have sex with me for life and even bear my children.”
“Give me a little more leeway!!”
…I hope this is Irina’s way of hiding her embarrassment… That’s what I’d like to think.